Really Bizarre October Surprise Ads

[cthulu2016]

Here is one way Empower Citizens Network seeks to turn around the black vote in Ohio:

Okay, that's bad. But it gets worse... say you want to convince that pesky 47% to not to vote for Obama and Abe Lincoln doesn't work?

Behold. An ad telling people that Obama's profligate spending threatens their welfare checks.

I hate to call it for what it is, but this ad is aimed squarely at Republicans by pretending to be aimed at the 47%, and painting the 47% as the sort of ravenous moochers who this ad might appeal to!

Empower Citizens Network’s TV ad is one of a group that have emerged on the scene in the closing days of the election in Ohio, according to Kathy Kiley, who studies political ad buys at the Sunlight Foundation.

“They’re a late spender, part of the October Surprise Club,” she said. Public records on file with Time Warner show all of Empower Citizens Network’s ad buys have been placed to cover the last week of the election.

The Empower Citizens Network ad uses some old Republican rhetoric to try and earn African American support for the GOP. “Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act while Democrats opposed it,” the narrator says at one point in the Empower Citizens Network ad.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/blacks-should-vote-republican-ad-ohio.php?ref=fpblg

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Wasn't this an episode of 30 Rock?

[SaveAmerica]

5. I was going to say that! Tracy Jordan couldn't do the commercial!

They probably got the idea from the show!

[11 Bravo]

2. Yeah, and that whole "Southern Strategy" stuff? Shit, they were just kidding.

[amuse bouche]

3. Don't worry about it

They're spinning their wheels. Every AA I know is absolutely disgusted with the treatment of our president by Republicans.

In Florida, they have turned out en masse for early voting. They won't be fooled

[Hollywood Hills]

4. Don't worry.

We're not buying it.

[quakerboy]

6. Are we sure this is not parody?

It sure looks like parody. A 5th grader would see through this if it were real. Particularly the second one.

[emulatorloo]

7. How low will they go?